David Shearer, Interim Director, Museum Studies Program
David Shearer specializes in Soviet and twentieth-century European history. He received his B.A. from Ohio State University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. His publications include Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934 (1996/1997) and articles on Soviet historiography and social history of the 1920s and 1930s. He is currently working on two monograph length research projects: social order and repression in the Soviet Union under Stalin and the history of Siberia during the first half of the twentieth century. email Professor Shearer

Janet (Jan) Broske is Curator of University Museums, University of Delaware, and is the Director of the Undergraduate Curatorial Apprenticeship Program. Having a secondary appointment as assistant professor in Museum Studies, Jan teaches Curatorship and Collections Management, in addition to providing object resources for numerous courses and for individual student instruction and research. Jan is an instructor in the School of Education, teaching Aesthetics in Education. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Toledo/Toledo Museum of Art, where she was a W. Sinclair Walbridge Fellow, a MA in Art History, University of Delaware, and has been a museum professional for over 20 years. email Professor Broske

Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Baily Professor of Art, Art Conservation, Art History and Museum Studies
Professional certificate in Painting, B.F.A., M.F.A. (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); also studied theatrical design (Goodman Theatre and School of Drama of the Art Institute of Chicago) and liberal arts (University of Chicago and University of Illinois, Chicago). Former consultant to and lecturer for the Education Department, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In addition to being a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, Prof. Brown has curated exhibitions (Goucher College, Baltimore; University Gallery of the University of Delaware; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA) and written exhibition catalogs (University Gallery of the University of Delaware and the Brandywine River Museum). As a writer he was contributing editor of American Artist Magazine for which he wrote the column "Looking at Paintings with Hilton Brown." Prof. Brown has taught at the following institutions since 1963: the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St.Louis, Goucher College, Baltimore, and the University of Delaware. He was chair of the Visual Arts Department of Goucher College, associate director fo the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, and director of the undergraduate program in Art Conservation at the Univesity of Delaware. Prof. Brown specializes in the history of the technology of western painting, drawing and printmaking from prehistoric times to the present. His secondary field of research is lesbian and gay studies. email Professor Brown

Pauline Eversmann
Pauline Eversmann is Director of Academic Programs and Senior Curator of Education at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. In this capacity she teaches in the Winterthur Program for Early American Culture and the Museum Studies program at the University of Delaware as well as writes and lectures on Winterthur’s history as an American country estate. She was formerly Deputy Director of Public Programs.

In the course of her Winterthur tenure, she has served in many capacities including head of guide training, director of an NEH grant to write a Handbook for Winterthur Interpreters, a faculty and Executive Committee member of the WPEAC program, and author of several Winterthur publications, including Early American Decorative Arts, with Rosemary Krill and Recognizing Style in Your Collection from the Winterthur Decorative Arts series.

She is currently at working on writing a new guide book for Winterthur, emphasizing its history as an American country estate. Eversmann has a Bachelor of Science in history from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters of Art in history from University of California, Berkeley and a Masters of Philosophy in history from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. email Professor Eversmann

Ritchie Garrison teaches courses in museum studies, material culture, decorative arts, and US history. He has authored Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860, American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (coedited with Ann Smart Martin), and After Ratification: Material Life in Delaware, 1789-1820, (coedited with Bernard L. Herman and Barbara McLean Ward). He has just completed a book manuscript, Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England. Other research projects include: a study of outbuilding patterns the early Republic, research on the early warehouses and commercial structures in the early port cities of the United States, the development of center tables in 19th century America, and an edited edition of two Civil War diaries kept by officers in the Massachusetts 54th and 55th Colored Regiments. B.A., Bates College (History); M.A. (History Museum Studies), Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York, Oneonta; M.A. (American Civilization) University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. (American Civilization), University of Pennsylvania. Director, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, Professor of History. Dr. Garrison was director of education at Historic Deerfield, Inc., MA (1976-85).email Professor Garrison

Katherine C. (Kasey) Grier is professor of material culture studies in the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She directs the Research Fellowship Program at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate and also serves as executive editor of Winterthur Portfolio, the journal of American material culture studies published by the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Grier also holds a joint appointment with the Department of History, where she teaches courses on material culture studies and serves as administrator for the department's graduate program in the History of American Civilization. Her research centers on the history of everyday life in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recently Dr. Grier's scholarship has focused on relationships between human beings and animals; she is the author of Pets in America: a History (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). She also curated a traveling exhibition titled "Pets in America: The Story of Our Lives with Animals At Home," which will tour the United States through 2007. email Professor Grier

Rosemary Troy Krill
Helping visitors to learn about and enjoy Winterthur Museum & Country Estate inspires the daily work of everyone in Winterthur’s Visitor Service Department. Period room guides and docents, garden guides, ticketing and reservation agents, and visitor service volunteers are all part of the visitor service team. Rosemary T. Krill leads this effort, supervising a staff of over 130 full-time and part-time employees and a budget of nearly 1.2 million dollars. Since receiving a master’s degree in American history and museum studies certification at the University of Delaware as a Hagley Fellow, Rosemary led education and interpretive efforts at the Monmouth County (NJ) Historical Association and the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. She has worked in education and public program endeavors at Winterthur since 1988. She is the author, with Pauline K. Eversmann, of Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters (American Association for State and Local History/Winterthur, 2000). She is a member of the American Association of Museums (serving as co-chair of its Visitor Service Professional Interest Group), the American Association for State and Local History, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She has been a peer reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services.email Professor Krill